Paper box



No Model.)

J. B. DUKE.

PAPER BOX.

110,349,786. Patented Sept. 28, 1886.

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UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES B. DUKE, OF DUItHAllL NORTH CAROLINA.

PAPER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,786, dated September 28, 1886.

Application filed August 7, 1886. Serial No. 210,311. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMEs B. DUKE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Durham, in the county of Durham and State of North Carolina, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in PaperBoxes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying draw- 1ngs.

This invention relates to an improved box of paper or pasteboard, adapted to be used for holding cigarettes and other articles.

I have used extensively boxes of the kind heretofore on the market for cigarettes, and have found that certain disadvantages are incident to them, which I have overcome. As now made the vertical end piece has tongues at the sides, lying outside of the side pieces of the tray,and united to the end piece by hinges which are vertical when the box is closed up. I have found that as a result of this construction it has been necessary to push the tray from the rear end, and has not been practicable to pull the tray from the opposite end. Now, it is desirable to be able to pull the tray, rather than push it, when articles like cigarettes are contained in it; but if the tray is made as in the Felbel patent the hinged inner end piece and the side tongues tend to spread or turn upward and outward as soon as a pulling strain is exerted on the opposite end. This I have found to be due to the fact that the line of attachment of the side tongues is vertical when the parts are closed, because each tongue is then free or unattached at the top,bottom,and front, so that it can rock up and down, and thus bind or cramp the tray when it is pulled. I overcome this in a way which will be understood from'the drawings and the description below.

Figure 1 is a view of the box partly opened. Fig. 2 is a view of the blank from which the tray is formed. Fig. 3 shows the tray when the parts at the inner end are partly closed up. Fig. 4 is a side view of the tray closed up. Fig. 5 is a section of the whole box;

A represents the shell or covering portion of the box, having top a, bottom 1), and sides 0, and being made in the ordinary way. It is open at the ends, and is adapted to have a tray slide to and fro therein.

The tray is formed from the blank shown in Fig. 2. The part for the bottom is represented by B, at the front end of. which is the part 1), adapted to bend up on the line as to close the end of the tray, and having the flat piece d, adapted to turn in and down upon the top of the tray. At the rear end the blank is cut wit-h a part, b which is adapted to turn up on the line y to close the rear end of the tray, and at the end of the blank there is a flat piece, I), hinged at the crease-line z and adapted to be bent down upon the top of the tray at its rear end-that is, to be so situated as to lie between the tray proper and the top wall, a, of the covering part A.

By examining Fig. 2 it will be seen that I cut out portions of the blank, as shown at 1), these recesses being of about the depth of the side pieces,G,and the width of the end piece,b".

b are tongues which project laterally from 0 the part1) b, they being hinged at the creaselines 00. \Vhen the parts of the blank are bent into position to form the tray, these tongues b are turned so as to project downwardly on the outsides of the side pieces, 0 G. The lines of 7 5 attachment :0 :10 are at the top of the tray, and hence under ordinary circumstances the tongues will not catch the top or bottom of the cover A, and thus the cramping or binding of the tray is obviated. In those heretofore used which were at all similar to mine the tonguepieces were attached to the part b and not to the flap b as in my construction, and hence when the parts were folded up the tongues were supported by a vertical hinged line at their rear edges, so that they could rock up and down, which allowed them to catch against the interior surfaces of the cover A, so that it was practically impossible to have the trayeasily slide to and fro while being pulled at 0 the flap-piece d; hence for many purposes these boxes were not available. With mine it is not necessary to push from the rear end beyond the point where a pulling grip can be obtained upon the parts I) d.

What I claim is l. The herein-described blank for a sliding tray in a paper box, it having the bottom part, B, side parts, 0 O, and end closing-piece at the front, a rear closing-piece, b atop flap, I00

b, recesses b" I) at the side of the part b and wardly from the part2), substantially as set the tongues b hinged to the flap Zr, substanforth. tially as set forth.

! In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in 2. In a paper box, a sliding tray having the presence of two witnesses. 5 bottom B, the sides 0 O, the front closing- JAMES B. DUKE.

piece, 1), the rear closing-piece, b the flap b resting on the top of the sides 0 O, and the tongues b hinged to and extending down- Vitnesses:

J. A. PATTERSON, J. \V. SNEED. 

